George Papandreou Quotes
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.
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I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.
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I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.
